A second lawsuit in just over a week has been filed against the Indian Mountain School in Salisbury, alleging a former teacher brought a student into his home and repeatedly sexually assaulted him from 1981-1983.

This lawsuit filed in state court in Waterbury on behalf of a John Doe alleges that over a two-year period when Doe was 12 and 13 he was abused by Christopher Simonds.

The lawsuit claims that Simonds "groomed" the teenage boy by offering advice, cigarettes and alcohol when he invited him to his home. This eventually led to Simonds sexually abusing Doe at least once a week while school was in session, the lawsuit said.

"This place in the 1970's and 80's was just of bed of pedophilia. There was no control," said Hartford attorney Richard J. Kenney, who is representing Doe.

The lawsuit is the second one filed in just over a week against the school.

A 19-page lawsuit was filed last week in U.S. District Court in New Haven by William Brewster Brownville alleging the school was as a den of sexual abuse. It named at least six former teachers or administrators, including Simonds, who either participated in or were aware that then-Headmaster Peter Carleton was "a pedophile who preyed and had for years been preying on vulnerable children in the school's care."

Brownville was 13-years-old student at the time he was abused, his lawsuit said.

Current Indian Mountain School Headmaster Mark Devey said Thursday he hadn't seen the latest lawsuit and therefore couldn't comment on it. Simonds is no longer a teacher at the school and Carleton is dead.

In 1996, The Courant exposed a string of sexual abuse allegations against Simonds. The allegations against Simonds surfaced after the criminal statute of limitations had expired, and he was never charged.

State police conducted a two-year investigation in 1992 and 1993 after receiving complaints of sexual abuse. The state police report on that investigation concluded that children at the school, some as young as 12, reported being given illegal drugs and cigarettes as a way of manipulating them into having sex with their teachers.

The report said that many staff members suspected that some of the middle school's students -- in grades 5 through 9 -- were being abused, but no one made a report with police. Eventually, five lawsuits were filed and settled out of court.

"These incidents allegedly took place more than 30 years ago, which makes it difficult because none of the employees from that time work here anymore, but we are committed to conducting a thorough investigation and are determined to do what is right,'' current Indian Mountain Headmaster Mark Devey said Friday. "If someone was mistreated in the past, even if it was over 30 years ago, we would reach out to support that individual."